The person(s) who create and then modify the spec is ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a project, not the contractors. Blaming them is buck passing. If you were unable to understand that the contractor was overpromising, whose fault is that, really? Besides which, it's more than likely that the spec was like nailing jello to the wall until the last minute, that's what most projects are like.
More like "the government needs to put a gun to your head". Stalinist coercion is the reason R-12 died, not R-134 being "good enough". Besides which, that's a terrible example since R-134 is actually a more efficient refrigerant than R-12 was.
Actually, you'll want to check up on that. He actually didn't want a general war. He is reported to have said to Ribbentrop "What now?" when confronted with the British declaration of war. More importantly, Hitler regarded Great Britain as a natural ally of Nazi Germany, to be cultivated rather than fought with.
If you'd confined this to "wanting to invade Poland", that much is true, Hitler did want that. A general European war was not his interest at all.
This site died long ago, and the paid astroturfing you are complaining about is the reason why. Time to put 127.0.0.1 in the hosts table again for slashdot.org.
Not really. Who started with the word 'denial' first? Yep. You know it.
Perhaps an analogy will help. When someone invokes Godwin: to continue along with the retarded argument, you must also invoke Godwin.
The AGW believing crew lost this one already and shredded its credibility along the way, the same way any kind of political advocacy shreds credibility. You can blame the other side for smearing shit all over you, but the results were as predictable as the sun rising again tomorrow morning.
Or, to put it another way, if you want to change minds, this isn't how to do it. Economics is a better argument than aesthetics, or crying wolf. The AGW "deniers" win by default.
The word "denier" implies the debate is over. So why not do what the Heartland Institute is doing? Smear the shit out of the AGW believers. It's how campaigns are won, and this one is being won.
How can you even argue that they should be doing anything different, if you assume that they actually believe in what they believe in. The other side is working off of false premises and has been admitting it - not quite openly, but admitting it - for 30 years. All that talk about the emergency not allowing for proper proof. Why not go hardball in the other direction? It's the only thing that's worked so far to move the needle. Otherwise, every time there's a snowstorm or a heat wave, it's AGW causing it.
Did you really think that politicians, an expression of the will of people, were going to let what amounts to a bunch of geeks tell them what to do? Think about it for a moment and realize how ludicrous that sounds. Of course there are Climategates and OBL billboards going up, tarring the AGW believers. This is standard politics, how it's been done since the beginning of time.
You are right about the trolls. BSD is dying was pretty funny too.
In any event, I think the AGW troll articles are going to do what nothing else did - encourage me to go to Reddit. People laugh that I still post here. I am coming to the point of view that they are right.
But yet the grandparent poster is at +5 Insightful for failing to google.
Proves out my decade-long tagline every time. People are fucking idiots, and any pretension of the posters on this site having higher than average intelligence is laughable.
No, they just annoy the shit out of people who still accept the updates with Genuine Windows bullshit. The default way to fix is to turn them off. Voila, zombie systems. It's all about revenue, after all, and fuck the rest of the world.
Who is the cocksmoker here? That'd be the AC Microsoft shill.
The paid shills have ruined this site. I wonder how that is working out for Microsoft.
Microsoft were the ones who restricted updates to those who are running Genuine Windows via various measures...
It's Microsoft's harm they are inflicting on the net - licensed systems that are easy to pirate, with features that encourage users to disable the updates. They decided to generate revenue through annoyance. The end result is zombie systems that will never get updates.
It's all Microsoft's fault. There is not even an iota of blame that falls on the pirate, as the existence of same is only human and entirely predictable.
A! Elbereth Gilthoniel! silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath, Gilthoniel, A! Elbereth! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees The starlight on the western seas
Despite the lack of link, this is congruent with all discussions about the matter i've ever had. No one wants to deal with the mess. That's why the NKs get away with what they do. The problem is when you think longer term, the idea that the regime won't last is wishful thinking, and their capabilities just keep getting larger in the WMD sphere. Doing something about them later is going to be even more painful than doing it now.
Textbook example of ignorance? My ass. I've been, you probably haven't. Most Arab states go the extra mile (or kilometer) to make sure that every native person is a Muslim. The confusion isn't 'random' or from 'bias', it's actively conspired at. Besides which, the inhabitants of Lebanon are NOT always Arabs.
Too much has changed over the course of 80 years for it to be a useful comparison. Stagecoaches to passenger trains to buses. You really need solid data for 1860s America to draw any kind of meaningful result, and that's the one thing we don't have.
The migrations and mass immigration of the 1800s would wreak havoc with any kind of analysis, war or no. The practice of purchasing substitutes made a mess of things. Then you have voluntary or involuntary 'local recruitment', something like the impressment of the early 1800s. Desertion was common, particularly in the South. There remained an open frontier to the north and west. Overall, lax military recordkeeping and disinterested census takers.
The article mentioned some error margins. They were large, and could have accommodated the 600k original figure as well as a much larger 850k count. They cut it right down the middle, pretty much.
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The person(s) who create and then modify the spec is ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a project, not the contractors. Blaming them is buck passing. If you were unable to understand that the contractor was overpromising, whose fault is that, really? Besides which, it's more than likely that the spec was like nailing jello to the wall until the last minute, that's what most projects are like.
When the bus is barreling towards you, throw them under it first!
More like "the government needs to put a gun to your head". Stalinist coercion is the reason R-12 died, not R-134 being "good enough". Besides which, that's a terrible example since R-134 is actually a more efficient refrigerant than R-12 was.
You really want to check that one.
Actually, you'll want to check up on that. He actually didn't want a general war. He is reported to have said to Ribbentrop "What now?" when confronted with the British declaration of war. More importantly, Hitler regarded Great Britain as a natural ally of Nazi Germany, to be cultivated rather than fought with.
If you'd confined this to "wanting to invade Poland", that much is true, Hitler did want that. A general European war was not his interest at all.
The rest of the GP post is mostly tripe.
I hadn't gotten to all my hosts files. You leftist losers should be happy you had me here for one more day, though.
Wouldn't it be easier just to get 2 sets of acoustic couplers and tape them together out->in in-out? Why reinvent the wheel?
This site died long ago, and the paid astroturfing you are complaining about is the reason why. Time to put 127.0.0.1 in the hosts table again for slashdot.org.
But wait, acknowledging you would be actual work...how about this automated game instead?
Not really. Who started with the word 'denial' first? Yep. You know it.
Perhaps an analogy will help. When someone invokes Godwin: to continue along with the retarded argument, you must also invoke Godwin.
The AGW believing crew lost this one already and shredded its credibility along the way, the same way any kind of political advocacy shreds credibility. You can blame the other side for smearing shit all over you, but the results were as predictable as the sun rising again tomorrow morning.
Or, to put it another way, if you want to change minds, this isn't how to do it. Economics is a better argument than aesthetics, or crying wolf. The AGW "deniers" win by default.
I'm sure they are. They are from Montana, after all.
The word "denier" implies the debate is over. So why not do what the Heartland Institute is doing? Smear the shit out of the AGW believers. It's how campaigns are won, and this one is being won.
How can you even argue that they should be doing anything different, if you assume that they actually believe in what they believe in. The other side is working off of false premises and has been admitting it - not quite openly, but admitting it - for 30 years. All that talk about the emergency not allowing for proper proof. Why not go hardball in the other direction? It's the only thing that's worked so far to move the needle. Otherwise, every time there's a snowstorm or a heat wave, it's AGW causing it.
Did you really think that politicians, an expression of the will of people, were going to let what amounts to a bunch of geeks tell them what to do? Think about it for a moment and realize how ludicrous that sounds. Of course there are Climategates and OBL billboards going up, tarring the AGW believers. This is standard politics, how it's been done since the beginning of time.
You are right about the trolls. BSD is dying was pretty funny too.
In any event, I think the AGW troll articles are going to do what nothing else did - encourage me to go to Reddit. People laugh that I still post here. I am coming to the point of view that they are right.
But yet the grandparent poster is at +5 Insightful for failing to google.
Proves out my decade-long tagline every time. People are fucking idiots, and any pretension of the posters on this site having higher than average intelligence is laughable.
No, they just annoy the shit out of people who still accept the updates with Genuine Windows bullshit. The default way to fix is to turn them off. Voila, zombie systems. It's all about revenue, after all, and fuck the rest of the world.
Who is the cocksmoker here? That'd be the AC Microsoft shill.
The paid shills have ruined this site. I wonder how that is working out for Microsoft.
Microsoft were the ones who restricted updates to those who are running Genuine Windows via various measures...
It's Microsoft's harm they are inflicting on the net - licensed systems that are easy to pirate, with features that encourage users to disable the updates. They decided to generate revenue through annoyance. The end result is zombie systems that will never get updates.
It's all Microsoft's fault. There is not even an iota of blame that falls on the pirate, as the existence of same is only human and entirely predictable.
USA Today...the only place I see it is at hotels, free copies at the door of the rooms in the morning. Otherwise, who buys it or reads it?
A! Elbereth Gilthoniel!
silivren penna míriel
o menel aglar elenath,
Gilthoniel, A! Elbereth!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees
The starlight on the western seas
Despite the lack of link, this is congruent with all discussions about the matter i've ever had. No one wants to deal with the mess. That's why the NKs get away with what they do. The problem is when you think longer term, the idea that the regime won't last is wishful thinking, and their capabilities just keep getting larger in the WMD sphere. Doing something about them later is going to be even more painful than doing it now.
Other nations aren't doing underground nuclear tests to go with their ICBM tests.
Yes, the difference between an ICBM and an orbital shot is the intended trajectory.
The Maronites aren't Arabs, amongst others. Go elsewhere in SWA, and you'll find Arab and Muslim are synonymous.
Textbook example of ignorance? My ass. I've been, you probably haven't. Most Arab states go the extra mile (or kilometer) to make sure that every native person is a Muslim. The confusion isn't 'random' or from 'bias', it's actively conspired at. Besides which, the inhabitants of Lebanon are NOT always Arabs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Lebanon
Now stop being a fucking ignorant idiot, ok?
That's not necessarily true. There is a rich ethnic mix in Lebanon, one of the reasons why there is so much fighting there.
Beirut isn't very Arab. It's close to 40% Christian.
Too much has changed over the course of 80 years for it to be a useful comparison. Stagecoaches to passenger trains to buses. You really need solid data for 1860s America to draw any kind of meaningful result, and that's the one thing we don't have.
The migrations and mass immigration of the 1800s would wreak havoc with any kind of analysis, war or no. The practice of purchasing substitutes made a mess of things. Then you have voluntary or involuntary 'local recruitment', something like the impressment of the early 1800s. Desertion was common, particularly in the South. There remained an open frontier to the north and west. Overall, lax military recordkeeping and disinterested census takers.
The article mentioned some error margins. They were large, and could have accommodated the 600k original figure as well as a much larger 850k count. They cut it right down the middle, pretty much.